Age of ExplorationA Geographic Revolution

Assignment

Vocabulary and Sentence for Chapters 2-3 Navigation Feudalism Colony Expedition Cape

Finance Infectious Disease Plantation Legacy Strait

Section Review Page 54 2-4

Section Review page 67 2-6

Fall of the Roman Empire (476 AD)

Began the Medieval PeriodWhat is an empire?

Why did it fall? The empire became to big to govern & protect

How did it fall? Barbarian tribes in Mongolia & Asia slowly chipped away at

the empire over time. Natural Law of History

For every empire that rises it eventually falls Signs of a declining empire

War National Debt Declining Educational System

Rome

How did the Fall of the Roman Empire lead to the Age of Exploration?

When the Barbarians attacked, people fled to the mountains for protection.

They built forts called castles for protection (Rise of Kings & Kingdoms)

Feudalism – service in exchange for protection The Barbarian invasions blocked the trade route from

Europe to China & the East Indies.

The Renaissance Took place between the 1300s & 1600s Means rebirth of civilization The Barbarian invasions did not last forever. People

eventually returned to the valleys. This period gave rise to great art & architecture.

Individuals like Michelangelo & Leonardo Da Vinci. People began to wonder about how things used to be.

Through oral history they learned of the former trade route & the wonderful products of the Far East.

Renaissance Art

Michelangelo- painter and sculptor responsible for the statue of David and the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel

The Commercial Revolution Marco Polo traveled from Italy to China & brought back

much information His journey created the want for products such as silk,

sugar, porcelain, & steel, which contributed to the desire to open & maintain a trade route from Europe to the East Indies.

Fall of Constantinople (1453) Constantinople, the new capital of the Catholic Church

established by Pope Constantine, was built along the trade route

In 1453, a tribe known as the Turks captured Constantinople & blocked the trade route

This led to the need to find an all-water route from Europe to Asia, which would give rise to the Age of Exploration

At the Bell

List 5 current examples of imports or exports from at least 2 countries

Think

what types of goods do you think were traded in the 1500-1600’s?

Pair Discuss with a partner

ShareShare your combined thoughts

with the class

Chapter 3 Section 2

Use the mapping (graphic organizer) reading strategy to help engineer your understanding of the text

Page 68 Disease, Accidental Seed of Change through page 70

Examples

Sugar cane

Diseases

Smallpox

Bubonic Plague (Black Death)

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